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Is this a good deal for the Legend tier? (tuta.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tuta is having a birthday sale, putting their highest Legend tier at the same price as their second-highest Revolutionary tier, and I'm wondering two things:

  • Is this a good deal for 36€ per year?
  • Is this a deal that comes around every year, or is this a rare sale?

I use addy.io to manage aliases, so the extra addresses are whatever. The custom domains might be nice, since I could potentially(?) use that with Addy. I've been pretty judicious with my free 1GB of space, but having 500GB would be more than comfortable (besides being overkill).

I'm not really interested in getting into self-hosting right now, but I might in the future, so I'm also curious how y'all who self-host email feel about a deal like this. Comparable to the cost of self-hosting? Similar features?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So with a custom domain, do you just have your domain and add it to SecureEmail as your address? Then if you want to move, you just cancel the SecureService and add your domain to another service?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I understand you correctly, yes.

I have my domain pointing mail DNS records to Tuta, and I registered that domain w/ Tuta so it's associated w/ my account. If I switch, I just register the domain w/ another service and point my mail DNS records to that other service. Tuta won't necessarily know that I've switched providers (unless they check my DNS records), they'll just stop receiving mail. It's on me to move whatever emails I want to the new service.

That's a lot less painful than changing my address, since I would have to go and change my address everywhere. This requires no changes to any services I use or to my contacts.

I have two domains, so I can move just one if I want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, cool. That's not unlike how I use addy.io. I have aliases for individual services that use the subdomain they gave me, and they forward to my Tuta address. If I want to leave Tuta and go to Mailbox.org (for example), I just have to tell addy.io to forward to that new email.

Thanks for the explanation! I've been thinking about getting my own domain.